US4595888A - Pre-distortion shaping network - Google Patents
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- VCO voltage-controlled oscillator
- FM frequency modulation
- One prior art shaping function utilizes a diode-resistor network such as that shown in FIG. 1.
- the resistors are typically selected for reduced distortion in VCO output which is time consuming and expensive.
- Distortion specifications for VCO's which employ such a network range from about -29 dB to about -54 dB.
- V GS -I D characteristic of a field-effect transistor is used to pre-distort the modulating signal of a VCO to reduce distortion. Since the FET operates in the saturated region of its characteristic, the non-linearity achievable for modulation of the VCO is essentially uncontrollable because it cannot be reduced below a computable minimum. Thus, VCO output distortion is typically no better than about -30 dB.
- the non-linear resistance of an FET is employed as one leg of a resistive voltage divider network.
- the output of this network is also used to pre-distort a VCO modulation signal.
- this network relies on the V DS -I D characteristic of the FET which is biased to operate in the linear region of that characteristic. Therefore, nearly any degree of controllable pre-distortion may be achieved.
- a pre-distortion shaping network constructed according to the principles of the present invention provides a second order voltage transfer function, the first and second order coefficients of which may be independently selected.
- the non-linearity of that voltage transfer function is approximately equal to the inverse of the VCO frequency modulation transfer function non-linearity.
- the shaping network of the present invention provides at least 30 dB improvement in VCO FM distortion. Typically, -90 dB distortion is obtainable.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic of one prior art pre-distortion network which includes a diode-resistor network.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic of another prior art pre-distortion network which employs the V GS -I D characteristic of an FET biased to the saturation region thereof.
- FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D are schematics of pre-distortion shaping networks constructed according to the principles of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a typical oscillator tank circuit.
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram including transfer function g(v).
- FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an FET biased to operate in its linear region.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram of V DS -I D characteristics curve of an FET for operation in the unsaturated region.
- R is the resistance of resistor 31 (as shown in FIGS. 3A-3D);
- V P is the pinch-off voltage for semiconductor device 32 (as shown in FIGS. 3A-3D).
- V in and V out are the input voltage and output voltage, respectively, of the shaping network 30 and 33 (as shown in FIGS. 3A-3D).
- equations A and B and A and C indicate that the FET shaping network of the present invention very closely approximates the shaping required to linearize the output FM modulation of the VCO signal.
- a comparison of equations A and B also shows the improvement of the present invention over traditional prior art diode-resistor shaping network.
- Such networks provide a transfer function comprised of interconnected straight-line segments having break points at the interconnection which approximate the desired curve. The more break points, the better the approximation, and many such break points are required to suppress higher order terms of the transfer function which are also produced by the network.
- the FET shaping network provides a transfer function having no break points and is inherently low in higher order terms.
- the shaping networks 30, 33 of FIGS. 3A-3D are resistive voltage dividers a semiconductor device, 32 namely an FET, resistor 31 and voltage source 34.
- Semiconductor device 32 is employed as one of the two resistances in the divider.
- Two basic configurations of the divider are provided; divider 30 in FIGS. 3A and 3C are the same but different from dividers 33 in FIGS. 3B and 3D.
- Such networks are utilized to shape the modulating signal of a VCO to reduce distortion in the FM component of the output signal of a VCO.
- the shaping network of the present invention attenuates its input voltage because it is a voltage divider. However, often it is desirable to have a shaper circuit with at least unity gain. Such gain may be achieved by amplifying the output signal from the divider network as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, or by scaling the input signal to the divider network as shown in FIGS. 3C and 3D.
- the shaping networks of the present invention shown in FIGS. 3A through 3D introduce a controlled amount of second order non-linearity to the voltage divider transfer function whereby the second order term opposes the first order linear term. It should be noted that, if desirable, the sign of the second order term may be changed by interchanging the source and drain connections in the configuration shown or by using a p-channel FET.
- V R Diode reverse bias
- modulating signal, v(t), is passed through shaping network, g(v), and summed with tune voltage, V o .
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